Oyo clamps down on brothels

The Oyo State Government on Friday clamped down on brothels operating in residential areas to curb their influence on young persons.

The state Commissioner for Environment and Habitat, Mr. Lowo Obisesan, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan that the action was to discourage brothels from operating in residential areas.

“Operating brothels in residential areas shows irresponsibility on the part of the owners, who do not care about the impact on children, who are exposed to such acts of indecency. “Reports from the affected communities have reached us as parents abhor the acts of immodesty shown to their children as the result of the existence of such brothels.

“Brothels should never be located in residential areas. This is illegal and we will not tolerate it. We will go round the state and ensure that anybody operating such centres will be brought to book,” Obisesan said.

On the distribution of relief materials to affected flood victims of last year, he said plans were underway to distribute to all concerned before end of the third quarter.

“The donations are already being used in the reconstruction of affected bridges, roads and drainages, and the relief materials will get to all concerned before the end of March,” he said. Obisesan also said that mobile courts would be set up in all the 33 local government areas in the state to handle all cases pertaining to the environment.

I have always wondered to be a thief and a prostitute, which is worse. This is a welcome development. However, we have to do it in a diplomatic and democratic way because they have their own fundamental human rights too.

Koko

Lowo is known to be overzelous in all his doings.

http://www.charlesolumo.ng.net charles olumo

you are just being economical with the truth, he is doing the right thing, learn to always make impact wherever you may find yourself, look at how your overzealous is being written please.

rimio

true..looting our treasury and prostitition. which one pass..mk i hear word

No patronage, no business. The govt should first inculcate morals on the people before a drastic action against brothels who had earlier obtained operation licenses. However the decision to stop their operation in residential areas is applaudable as most criminals spend their loots on alcohol and prostitutes. The govt should thread with caution and wisdom.

Crafty

Please tell us where brothels should be located,if not in residential areas.

John

Did I hear the commissioner saying relief materials will get to beneficiaries latest march 2013?Oyo should bury their head in shame.Flood disaster of August 2011!The victims must have moved on and the materials could,if it still exist,not serve any palliative effect again.I have always say it,South West is a scam

Adeyemi

The Commissioner has our support on this. Oyo State has to be thoroughly sanitized. Most comments here devoid of wisdom

Taiwo-ID

Asewo no be work! Govt shld try and work on these brothel with wisdom.
On the part of relief materials to the victim, it is clear that govt of our time are heartless. I am sure that the money allotted for this purpose is part of what gov’s wife tried to launder last yr. God will judge o…

Adeyemi

The Commissioner has our support on this. Oyo State has to be thoroughly sanitized. Most comments here devoid of wisdom. We can do without brothels in Ibadan.

Mr Jerry

Operating a brothel is illegal and punishable under the Criminal Code. Asking brothels to relocate to non-residential areas does not make an otherwise illegal act legal ; so the Honourable Commissioner is still encouraging illegality.
It is about time we faced reality and stop pretending and burying our head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich. Legalize prostitution and be in a position to control what happens in that “down stream sector.” When Senator Ekweremadu mooted this point in the Senate, we all shouted him down in our usual show of self-righteousness. But available statistics from countries where prostitution has been legalized shows that the benefits outweighs the current situation where we leave that sector in the hands of criminal gangs who run it to societal detriment.
The continuous criminalization of consensual sex among adults in the name of morality is self-deceit. We all know the brothels are there and the trade in flesh is going on but we choose to look the other way. Sadly whoever talks about legalizing and regulating the trade becomes societal enemy in the hands of self-righteous Puritans.

Salami Adewale

@Mr.Jerry,Did I READ YOU WELL.?.What are these benefits that you talk about.Do we have to copy all that they do in Europe & America.There is no RACE in the world without CULTURAL VALUES.Must we in the name of sophistication throw all these values overboard?

D Conscience

This is long overdue. But I really wish they can start from themselves. A known honourable of the State House of Assembly in the Person of ‘Sugar’ Temitope Olatoye has a brothel in General gas area which not only pose danger to the area but also contradict the supposed clearing of illegal structures in the State by the government as this structure obviously encroach on the main road. Government pls wake up and be fair in your task.

Relief material one year after the disaster. Oyo govt is a ruse. ACN is a scam.

Oladunni

Dear sir,
Kindly help the residents of Okebadan Estate, Iyana church area to see to what is happening in their environment. Few landlords in the area are rearing animals on free range and this has been a subject of concern to law abiding residents. A situation whereby a single individual in the area keeps about 15 goats and sheep apart from dogs and birds on free range is not healthy for the environment and you their not talk. Also, most of the houses in the area and on the way to the area do not have drainage and this is already telling on the existing roads in the area. Please help us by sending people in the ministry to come and investigate the situation in the area.

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sylver charles

Brothel should not be located in the residential area ,rather it should be in the industrial area ,abi

DELE WISDOM

WHAT IS NO GOOD IS NOT GOOD.LET THE GOVERNMENT DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE IN ORDER TO SANITIZE NIGERIA.WE CAN NOT BECAUSE OF CIVILIZATION,THROW AWAY OUR DIGNITY.I COULD REMEMBER LAST YEAR IN OSUN WHEN THE SOLDERS WERE BEATING THOSE WITH INDECENT DRESSINGS.LET US MAKE NIGERIA CLEAN.THANK YOU.

Ukpor Izah Godfrey

Good decision.

A.O. Imiete

Kudos to the Hon. Commissioner for a job welldone. Such places should not be encouraged in Nigeria.

moruf

for once in the history of the pacesetter state someone is waging war on AIDS and HIV, but ibadan people will not allow this good team last more than 2015, very very unfortunate.

alekijojo

Misplaced priority.

Bachan Lawal

Inside industrial areas. Go all over developed countries, they are zoned into industrial areas.

Peter okoh

Jegede asked about the positive side of prostitution? Yes it has . It prevents or reduces the crime of rape to the a minimum, it provides avenue for people to relax, it gives financial surport to women who would have been completly hopeless!.

kpurkpur Raymond

lets be reasonable.who gave them the license to operate in the firdt place,if not the government(hisses)

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